I'm pretty sure that Satoshi Nakamoto is actually the author and financier Paco Ahlgren. If you read his book Discipline, it lays out a private currency after the fall of the world's economies. That would be great history, except Ahlgren wrote the book in 2000. He predicted that the U.S. would fall apart because of the economic problems.

The details of his currency and Bitcoin are too similar, so I can't really believe Ahlgren doesn't have something to do with BC. There are some differences. For instance, Ahlgren's currency is gold backed. But the overall big picture is scary in its similarity. I read the book in 2007 when it was published, but I picked it up again in 2009, after the s*** hit the fan. He hit the nail on the head.

Mack